Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath submits his resignation to Governor Anandiben Patel at Raj Bhawan, in Lucknow. (PTI Photo)Uttar Pradesh Election Results 2022 Highlights: After BJP’s momentous victory in Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday submitted his resignation to Governor Anandiben Patel as his first tenure came to an end. Yogi is set to become the first Chief Minister to return to power in the state after completing a five-year term. The BJP became the first party to retain power in the state since 1985.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati said that the results of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections was a ‘lesson’ for the party. BSP had managed to secure only one vote. “UP election results are opposed to BSP’s expectations. We should not be discouraged by it. Instead we should learn form it, introspect and carry forward our party movement, and come back to power,” she was quoted as saying by ANI.
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The BJP has won 255 seats, while its rival Samajwadi Party has won 111 seats, according to the Election Commission (EC) website. The Congress, showcasing a dismal performance, has won two seats. The BSP of Mayawati, a four-time chief minister, was all but obliterated with just one seat despite polling 12.88 per cent votes.
After BJP’s momentous victory in Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday submitted his resignation to Governor Anandiben Patel as his first tenure came to an end. Yogi is set to become the first Chief Minister to return to power in the state after completing a five-year term. With the win, the BJP became the first party to retain power in the state since 1985.
"Akhilesh Yadav and SP accept people's mandate. We thank people of UP for the 2.5 times increase in the seat tally and a 1.5 times surge in the vote share. The results have shown that the BJP's seat count can be decreased & this decline would continue," Samajwadi Party said.
The Samajwadi Party's Azam Khan and Nahid Hasan, both of whom contested the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections while being jailed, have won their respective seats, official results showed. Khan, a former Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister and nine-term MLA, registered victory against nearest rival Akash Saxena (Honey) of the BJP from Rampur seat by a margin of over 55,000 votes, the Election Commission website showed. Khan got 1.31 lakh (or 59.71 per cent) of the total votes counted while Saxena polled 76,084 (or 34.62 per cent) votes, according to the EC. --PTI
While a few 'bahubalis' managed wins in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, a majority of them were rejected by the voters. According to the results, many alleged dons-turned-politicians failed to make it to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly. These include Dhananjay Singh (Malhani), Vijay Mishra (Gyanpur), Yash Bhadra Singh Monu (Isauli) and Amarmani Tripathi (Nautanwa), son of Purvanchal strongman Yatra Amanmani Tripathi, who is sentenced to life imprisonment. However, on the other hand, Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya (Kunda) and Abhay Singh (Gosaiganj) managed to win. --PTI
Most of the turncoats failed to win their seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections that witnessed the BJP sweeping to power for a second consecutive term. The BJP and its allied parties won 273 out of 403 Assembly seats while the Samajwadi Party-led coalition clinched 125 seats. Of the 21 turncoats, only four could win the polls. Nine of the them were fielded by the BJP and 10 by the Samajwadi Party (SP). Among the prominent losers were former UP ministers Dharam Singh Saini and Swami Prasad Maurya, who had joined the SP just ahead of the polls; and former Bareilly mayor Supriya Aron.
A Samajwadi Party candidate, who went extra-vigilant ahead of counting of votes and kept an eye on the local election office through binoculars, has lost the Uttar Pradesh assembly poll, official results showed. Yogesh Verma of the SP contested from Hastinapur constituency in western UP's Meerut district where he lost to BJP's Dinesh Khatik, the sitting MLA, by a margin of 7,312 votes, the Election Commission (EC) website showed. Verma got 1 lakh (43.55 per cent) of the total votes counted while Khatik polled in 1.07 lakh (46.72 per cent) votes, the EC data showed. --PTI
Reacting to the Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) performance in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls where it won only 1 of the 403 seats, Mayawati said that even the Dalits voted for the BJP as they feared a return of the Samajwadi Party’s jungle raj.
“BSP’s supporters, who are primarily upper caste Hindus and from several OBC communities, had a fear in them that if the SP came back to power, the state would be thrown back to the jungle raj and goonda raj of the past. Hence, they went ahead and voted for the BJP,” the supremo said. Read more
Trounced in the assembly polls, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Friday said he is worker of the BJP, and will do whatever the party tells him to do. Maurya lost the assembly poll contest in Sirathu to Samajwadi Party's Pallavi Patel by 7,337 votes. While Maurya polled 98,941 votes, Patel, the elder sister of Union minister Anupriya Patel, got 1,06,278 votes.
"I am a worker of the party, and will do whatever the party tells me to do," Maurya told PTI. "With all humility, I accept the mandate of the people of Sirathu assembly constituency. I am thankful to each and every party worker and also express my gratitude towards the voters, who have voted for me. It is a happy moment for us that the BJP has formed the government once again due to the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Uttar Pradesh and in three other states." (PTI)
A BJP MLA, who was seen doing sit-ups and giving a massage to a voter during the Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll campaigns, has retained his seat, official results showed. Bhupesh Chaubey from Robertsganj constituency in Sonbhadra district secured 84,496 (or 40.29 per cent) of the total votes counted, defeating his nearest rival, Avinash Kushwaha of the Samajwadi Party (SP) by over 5,600 votes, according to the Election Commission website.
Kushwaha got 78,875 (or 37.61 per cent) of the total 2.09 lakh votes that were counted on the seat, according to the Election Commission. A total of 10 candidates were in the fray for the Assembly poll from Robertsganj, including Chaubey, who had won the constituency election in 2017 to become a first-time MLA.
The 47-year-old BJP MLA had hogged the limelight during poll campaigns after he was seen doing sit-ups holding his ears from the stage of an election rally, in a bid to seek 'forgiveness' of the voters of his constituency. (PTI)
Voters have sent 36 Muslim candidates to the 18th Uttar Pradesh Assembly compared to 24 in the previous Assembly polls. The newly elected MLAs account for 8.93% of the total 403 legislators in a state with 19% of the Muslim population. Among the prominent Muslim MLAs were Azam Khan, his son Abdullah Azam Khan, jailed-gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas, and nephew Suhaib.
In Rampur, jailed SP leader Azam Khan won the seat after securing 1,21,755 votes, while BJP’s Akash Saxena was a distant second with 56,368 votes. Read more
The Uttar Pradesh cabinet on Friday will hold their last cabinet meeting of the first tenure of the BJP government at 5 pm in Lucknow. (ANI)
Samajwadi Party’s Kanpur vice-president Narendra Singh alias ‘Pintu’ (55) allegedly attempted suicide by setting himself ablaze outside the Vidhan Bhawan in Lucknow on Thursday after his party lost the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly election to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). SP’s Kanpur district president Dr Imran said that Narendra Singh took the step because he felt the party lost the state Legislative Assembly election to the BJP due to irregularities in electronic voting machines (EVM).
A businessman, Narendra Singh suffered 30 per cent burn injuries and is undergoing treatment at a civil hospital. The doctors have stated that his condition is critical. Shyam Babu Shukla, station house officer, Hazratganj police station, said they are yet to record Singh’s to know the exact reason behind his action. Read more
The BSP reduced to just one seat in Uttar Pradesh and the sole winner is a sitting MLA from Rasra Assembly seat in Ballia district — Uma Shankar Singh. Asked about his lone victory and the downfall of the BSP, Singh said the party would review the performance after the counting. But, it’s worth noticing that the BSP had got less seats even in 2017, but its vote share was 1.9 per cent higher than the SP, which has now dipped far lower than the latter. Singh won the seat for a third consecutive term. Earlier he had won the seat in 2012 and 2017 despite all odds. Read more
Reacting to the Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) performance in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls where it won only 1 of the 403 seats, Mayawati said that even the Dalits voted for the BJP as they feared a return of the Samajwadi Party’s jungle raj.
“BSP’s supporters, who are primarily upper caste Hindus and from several OBC communities, had a fear in them that if the SP came back to power, the state would be thrown back to the jungle raj and goonda raj of the past. Hence, they went ahead and voted for the BJP,” the supremo said. Read the full story here
Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias ‘Raja Bhaiya’s newly formed Jansatta Dal Loktantrik Party clinched two seats in its maiden election after the results of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections were announced on Thursday evening. The party’s national president Singh (52) was re-elected from Kunda in Pratapgarh district after he defeated his former close aide and Samajwadi Party candidate Gulshan Yadav (38). The six-time MLA secured 99,612 votes, while Yadav stood at the second spot by bagging 69,297 votes. Before 2022, he had contested as an independent candidate for five consecutive polls. The BJP had fielded Sindhuja Mishra Senani in the constituency. Read more
Out of the nine Assembly seats in Capital Lucknow, BJP won seven – only a seat less than its 2017 poll tally. The Samajwadi Party, which at one point of time was leading in three seats, manage to win only two, bettering its 2017 tally by only one seat. BJP minister Ashutosh Tandon ‘Gopal Ji’ won with the highest margin of 68,731 votes in Lucknow East — a seat held by the BJP for long.
BJP’s Rajeshwar Singh, the former joint director of Enforcement Directorate who took voluntary retirement just ahead of the election, won from Sarojini Nagar, defeating his SP rival Abhishek Mishra by over 56,000 votes. Read more
Despite criticism of rights violation, the UP government was able to successfully project its crackdown on the mafia and the killing of criminals in police encounters as a sign of better law and order. In poll rallies, CM Adityanath and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have claimed a sharp drop in crimes such as murders, kidnapping and rapes over the past five years.
The free ration scheme of the Central and state governments was a gamechanger for the BJP as families struggled through a pandemic that led to the loss of lives and jobs. Besides the ration, other schemes such as the PM Kisan Nidhi, where money was transferred to the bank accounts of farmers, helped the BJP blunt anti-incumbency against it. Lalmani Verma writes
Even as the Samajwadi Party (SP) only came in second to the BJP in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, the SP’s western UP ally, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), emerged with a crucial performance. RLD fielded candidates in 33 seats in alliance with SP, and managed to win eight seats. As per Election Commission (EC) figures till 8 pm, the RLD had nearly 3 per cent vote share. It has also emerged as the fourth largest party in the state ahead of Congress and BSP.
In the 2007 UP Assembly elections, RLD had managed to win 10 seats, and followed it up with nine seats in the 2012 elections. Since then, however, RLD has suffered crushing blows, with the late Ajit Singh — father of current party president Jayant Chaudhary — losing in parliamentary elections held following the Muzaffarnagar riots. The riots paved the way for rising differences between Jats and Muslims in the region, and western UP residents say Jat communities and khaps remained angry with Ajit Singh since then, which further impacted the party as a whole. Read more
Bipolar fight: It was clear from the beginning that the election would be between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath targeting the SP and Akhilesh Yadav by referring to “mafiawaad”, “gundagardi by laal topiwalahs”, and “appeasement of one community” (Muslims). As the results show, voters too made their choice between the BJP and the SP (or their respective allies), largely ignoring the BSP and the Congress.
Security & Hindutva: Many voters were convinced that it was necessary to bring the incumbent government back to power solely on the issue of law and order, their argument being that no government can remove problems like inflation and unemployment completely. Adityanath’s comments like “garmi thanda kar doonga” or “bulldozer chalega” were widely seen as references to operations on criminals. Bhupendra Pandey explains
BSP leader on Friday said that negative campaigning led to the belief that the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) was the BJP's B-team. 'Negative campaigns succeeded in misleading... that BSP is BJP's B-team... while the truth is opposite, BJP vs BSP war was not only political but principled & electoral as well,' she said.